Terrestrial Animal Health Code

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Chapter 14.2.


Contagious agalactia


Article 14.2.1.


Recommendations for the importation of sheep and goats

Veterinary Authorities of importing countries should require the presentation of an international veterinary certificate attesting that the animals:

  1. showed no clinical sign of contagious agalactia on the day of shipment;

  2. were kept since birth or for the six months prior to shipment in an establishment where no case of contagious agalactia was officially reported during that period;

  3. were kept in a quarantine station for the 21 days prior to shipment.


nb: first adopted in 1968.

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